/film/ - FILM

In terms of the Tik, they do discuss it sometimes, i mostly remember the obituary or general recs but not that much activity at least a year ago.
Don't use it that much because it's tough as nails to maintain a good ratio without using outside tools like seedboxes or the such. Also it's mostly DVD9/BD integral rips so not much use unless you like the bonuses, which are a pain to encode anyways after downloading the entire thing.
>Recruiting
Can't say i recommend waiting for that unless you personally know a mod/high-rank there.

Cinemageddon has more film discussion than Cinematik. There's not a huge amount of discussion on these sites because the userbase has been there a long time and the novelty has worn off. Invites are limited to avoid potential trouble from interlopers, but that also reduces the vibrancy of the forums.

KG seems like the perfect place then

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>>2470
...although they're overmoderating the comments more and more

how hard is ptp to get into? do you have to go through red? what about tik?
also, cg just distributed 5 invites to all superfans and up. 
also, rip thc

>>2787
I suppose you can get into both eventually. Perhaps redacted is the way to go, but I'm not Elite so I can't speak to the current status of their invites section.
Cinematik needs more people tbh. Lately I've noticed a lot of longtime members banned for unknown reasons.

>>2789
i never see tik invites on sc, kg, or cg. might try red for ptp (I'm just not a huge music fan so I've been putting it off). thanks for the input

>>2790
it looks like interviews no longer exist for tik.

I wouldn't discuss in a tracker forum, you can make someone mad at get banned for nothing. The irc servers are safer but not risk free either.

>>2787
>do you have to go through red? 
Got banned for inactivity there, pretty tough to maintain myself there because it's hard to seed, uploading is easy enough if you know the basics of encoding but you upload once and every sucker with a sneedbox will dust your chances at building a good ratio so it's practically a one-time upload only.
Will try to appeal my ban (which was in an account already with a re-activation and this last ban was 3 months ago) but makes me wonder if it is worth it, the list of albums i wanted which were rare was a bit long to keep buying discs to upload, might as well buy the albums i want because practically costs the same.
If PtP is as hard to maintain as RED then it's not worth it, but as far as i know the former is much easier, once a time i thought it wasn't needed because Zooqle or Monova had everything (mainstream) but things are getting harder to find despite the mainstream nature of it, guess KG needs to relax a bit or some maniac to start doing the old P2P trickery of the old days or the russians to stop hardcoding their dubs over the audio.

I still maintain 'Tik is for DVD aficionados only, i don't see anything there that isn't on KG other than the BTS bonuses inside the discs, if someone is looking for something inside i can search can't guarantee my account works lol thank you again master inviter for the tickets
Also this >>2811 so much, commenting on private trackers is just risking getting the boot from a mentally ill/overly paranoid mod, every time. As long as one participates in the polls and other similar things the mods will know you are not a bot or some fed.

>>2813
>red
It's easy enough to build ratio if you fill requests or upload high res albums.

I hadn't used soulseek in a while, but it has many FLAC albums that aren't on RED

>>2818
>if you fill requests
That takes money to do which i didn't have some months ago, nowadays i have 3 albums ripped and ready to upload but i lost my account due to lack of use.
It's my fault for not knowing where i got into but it's not like other sites where the freebie of the day gets you some megs to upload like KG or TV-Vault. Now that i think of it i might request my re-activation but i doubt they will take it, a shame because RuTracker is great but there's just some niche stuff in RED i cannot find everywhere aside from ironically YouTube, some top ruskie uploaders simply stopped after 2015.

>>2828
>That takes money to do
There are also requests for albums you can find on deezer or qobuz.

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Tik-bros, I heard they're shifting the tracker base to Unit3d. what are you doing about it? you are at least voicing your dissent, right? surely, the admin of tik would listen to valid complaints.

>>3011
>"This account has been disabled"
Welp, now i know

>>3011
I saw the thread but didn't have time to read much of it.  What other sites use Unit3D?

>>3013
many of the shit-tier ones go for it because it's incredibly easy to set up. But it's a bloated mess with close to zero improvement to UX over the gazelle ones - only offering a shiny netflix-esque interface. It's impossible to compare rips since every torrent has its own page and the search is genuinely shit.

Any site that uses it also becomes dead in terms of forums. Among the popular ones - BHD, BLU, Aither, Concertos, Asiancinema, TVCuk and a ton of shitrackers use it.

>>3016
it seems to be getting more and more popular. the age of comfy trackers is over

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I like they are allowing Asian uploads. I was disabled for inactivity from http://asiancinema.me/

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Did the site also change ownership? I assume the random user I never heard of  who "improved" the design to resemble a generic nu-tracker was also promoted to admin.

As a testament to this new direction, Cinematik has been offline for a few days following vague drama amongst the mods

>>3586
>random user I never heard of  who "improved" the design was also promoted to admin
Many such cases, i keep finding that hijacking projects is easier than making new ones. Should be obvious but the sheer shamelessness of it still strikes me, it's a lesson taken straight out of a subversion manual.
I didn't quite use it like i should've due to being somewhat hard to seed but it was a great site, particularly for hard to find DVD extras.

>>3588
>i keep finding that hijacking projects is easier than making new ones.
Most non-autotrophic organisms on Earth are parasites and that's not even counting viruses. Creation and sovereignty are generally selected against by genetics, it's not entirely surprising that human activity would reflect this. The difference between genes and memes is that we can control selective pressures in human culture, so there is still hope for a future where hijacking projects is a net negative for everyone involved.

The site is back without any discussion of what happened. There's more discussion of the situation at HDBits—but in a thread about Blutopia...
The details are still unclear, but it sounds like people with overlapping staffing responsibilities on these three sites had a personality clash.

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>PTP
>KG
>CG
>AVZ

I don't think you need anything more.

>>3652
What's the best way to get into ptp? I'm on kg and cg.

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>>3653
Good question

There's official recruitment at RED specifying you must be Torrent Master+, meaning 500 uploads and 500 GB uploaded. The 500 uploads would probably be easier than 500 GB uploaded.

Or you can build up your account on whatever site you are on, wait until people starting talking about PTP on the forums, then ask "how is it even possible to get an invite" without directly asking for one. But then you have to find (at minimum) an Elite class user with 1500000 Bonus Points to burn on inviting a random person.

>>3654
Thank you for the response, although I already knew this. I’ve always been reluctant about RED mainly because I’ve never been super interested in downloading and storing music, but it’s probably worth it. However, with KG, CG, and public trackers I very rarely (can’t even remember the last time) can’t find a film I’m looking for.

>>3655
Someone with 200 uploads on PTP gets weekly invites. Find one of those people if possible.
I never built up my PTP profile very much so I'm in a low user class. The site abandoned the informal standards against stealing peoples' uploads from other sites. Even though much of my work was reposted to PTP I got no credit for it, though by now most of it has probably been trumped anyway.

>>3656
Some of the encodes and remuxes I posted have definitely been reposted by others at this point. I had a few very rare ones on THC before it got shut down. 

>Even though much of my work was reposted to PTP I got no credit for it

I know nothing of the internal policies of PTP but...
There was one very annoying user on SC and I'm sure he's still very prominent there. He essentially stole thousands of torrents from others AND NEVER ONCE gave any credit to anyone yet the mods of that site dickrode him until he was a key player on the site. I don't think he ever made his own rip or anything. Annoying piece of shit. SC didn't have any policies against it to my memory but I basically stopped using the site because of this guy (among a couple other reasons).

Anyways, thanks for the insights. I'm not sure I'll be joining PTP anytime soon, it also takes so much time to build up a profile and be consistent so I'll move on for the time being.

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>>3653
I only got in through the second method from >>3654

Official recruitment/interviews are too much of a pain in the ass. I just grinded on one site with constant original uploads and kept (very occasionally) whining about not being able to access the upper tier sites on its forums.

Different guys took notice and I got in on all of em through user invites (except AVZ). Only when I got in did I realize that a huge portion of my original rips were posted to PTP by the person who'd ultimately invited me. Hey, not blaming the guy - if not for him, someone else would have.

Funny that this thread got bumped, to whoever anon invited me to KG: Sorry for the wait but i am finally finishing a couple of subtitles after several years playing dumb so mission accomplished :^), unironically thank you very much

>>3655
>reluctant about RED
I remember getting invited there time ago and it is tough to seed without a box, got kicked for inactivity despite seeding a bunch of torrents 12 hours a day. They give a lot of free tokens but they work you out, uploading stuff is also tricky because you will seed to 1.0 and someone else will box it out and ride on your stuff.
Funny that i bought a bunch of obscure CDs to upload right before getting kicked out.

Because of what i (and i suspect we) consume i think KG usually has stuff more readily than PTP which i've constantly see is focused more on the mainstream rather than an artistic archive. If it isn't on the open then KG or HawkMenBlues has it, sadly the latter stopped uploading so it's a ticking bomb before a good chunk of it gets disappeared.
Sad to see re-uploads are a constant thing, i don't mind that much with music as i did that once upon a time, but for movies with custom subtitles that's a bitch.

>>3659
>HawkMenBlues has it, sadly the latter stopped uploading so it's a ticking bomb before a good chunk of it gets disappeared.
>He doesn't know

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>>3660
FUCK i thought i had the real thing bookmarked, it was the book blog, goddamn and here i was thinking that his latest uploads were just books.
Amidst my panic i found another site that seems on the same vein and one that i used once upon a time to find softcore stuff which also uploads normal stuff, glad to see they are alive. Here they are if someone is interested to have another data bank for potential hits.
https://rarefilmm.com/film-index/
https://rarelust.com/movies-index/

ripip Hawk Man, at least the books are nice, also the music blog

>>3661
He’s done uploading.

>>3660
>>3661
I’m not caught up on this. Did he die or simply stop adding movies?

>>3664
AFAIK he had restarted the blog/site a couple of times due to copyright along with having to re-upload a ton of stuff again, hence why he devised that rule of no movies previous to a certain year and such, but last time that it got taken down he seems to have had enough and called it quits.
The book blog is still up, in theory that one should be much more of a shame if lost due to ripping books not being as easy as ripping a DVD or VHS, still his movie blog was gold due to having many titles that cannot be obtained unless you are in a specialized private tracker.
I think he's still very alive and somewhat active in other platforms in terms of presence but his film uploading days seem to have stopped.

>>3671
I see, thanks. I knew that the blog was restarted a couple of times, I actually believe that I made the qtddtot on this board a couple iterations back. I thought he may have finally followed through with his old nickname, heh.